Study: Maud Seated
- Medium
- Lithotint with scraping and roulette in black ink on ivory wove proofing paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.5 × 18.3 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 29.3 × 22.4 cm (11 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- lithotint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
inkprintprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)lithotintlithographwove paper
About
Whistler frequently depicted his mistresses (and later, his wife), including the early etching Finette (nearby, 1938.1882) and this later lithotint. This subject’s relaxed pose—curled up in a chair, legs draped to the side—demonstrates an easy intimacy completely at odds with the portrait of Whistler’s straight-laced Victorian mother.
